Michael Ejercito
2017-05-07 16:38:35 UTC
France: Emmanuel Macron, Useful Idiot of Islamism
by Yves Mamou
May 7, 2017 at 1:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10310/emmanuel-macron-islamism
Emmanuel Macron, a "Useful Infidel," is not a supporter of terrorism or
Islamism. It is worse: he does not even see the threat.
Louizi's article gave names and dates, explaining how Macron's political
movement has largely been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood militants.
Is Macron an open promoter of Islamism in France? It is more politically
correct to say that he is a "globalist" and an "open promoter of
multiculturalism". As such, he does not consider Islamism a national threat
because the French nation, or, as he has said, French culture, does not
really exist.
During the cold war with the Soviet Union, they were called "Useful Idiots".
These people were not members of the Communist Party, but they worked for,
spoke in favor of and supported the ideas of Lenin and Stalin. In the 21st
century, Communism is finally dead but Islamism has grown and is replacing
it as a global threat.
Like Communism, Islamism -- or Islamic totalitarianism -- has been
collecting its "Useful Infidels" the same way Communism collected its Useful
Idiots. There is, however, an important difference: under the Soviet Union,
Useful Idiots were intellectuals. Now, Useful Infidels are politicians, and
one of them may be elected president of France today.
Emmanuel Macron (Image source: European External Action Service)
Emmanuel Macron, Useful Infidel, is not a supporter of terrorism or
Islamism. It is worse: he does not even see the threat. In the wake of the
gruesome attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, Macron said that French
society must assume a "share of responsibility" in the "soil in which
jihadism thrives."
"Someone, on the pretext that he has a beard or a name we could believe is
Muslim, is four times less likely to have a job than another who is
non-Muslim," he added. Coming from the direction of Syria and armed with a
Kalashnikov and a belt of explosives would, according to him, be a gesture
of spite from the long-term unemployed?
Macron comes close to accusing the French of being racists and
"Islamophobes". "We have a share of responsibility," he warned, "because
this totalitarianism feeds on the mistrust that we have allowed to settle in
society.... and if tomorrow we do not take care, it will divide them even
more ".
Consequently, Macron said, French society "must change and be more open."
More open to what? To Islam, of course.
On April 20, 2017, after an Islamist terrorist killed one police officer and
wounded two others in Paris, Macron said: "I am not going to invent an
anti-terrorist program in one night". After two years of continuous
terrorist attacks on French territory, the presidential candidate said he
had not taken the country's security problems into account?
Moreover, on April 6, during the presidential campaign, professor Barbara
Lefebvre, who has authored books on Islamism, revealed to the audience of
the France2 television program L'Emission Politique, the presence on
Macron's campaign team of Mohamed Saou. It was Saou, apparently, a
departmental manager of Macron's political movement, "En Marche"
("Forward"), who promoted on Twitter the classic Islamist statement: "I am
not Charlie".
Sensing a potential scandal, Macron dismissed Saou, but on April 14, invited
onto Beur FM, a Muslim French radio station, Macron was caught saying on a
"hot mic" (believing himself off the air): "He [Saou] did a couple things a
little bit radical. But anyway, Mohamed is a good guy, a very good guy".
"Very good", presumably, because Mohamed Saou was working to rally Muslim
voters to Macron.
Is Saou an isolated case? Of course not. On April 28, Mohamed Louizi, author
of the book Why I Quit Muslim Brotherhood, released a detailed article on
Facebook that accused Macron of being a "hostage of the Islamist vote".
Republished by Dreuz, a Christian anti-Islamist website, Louizi's article
gave names and dates, explaining how Macron's political movement has largely
been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood militants. It will be interesting to
see how many of them will be candidates in Macron's movement in the next
parliamentary elections.
On April 24, the Union of Islamic Organisations of France (UOIF), generally
known as the French representative of Muslim Brotherhood, publicly called on
Muslims to "vote against the xenophobic, anti-Semitic and racist ideas of
the National Front and [we] call to massively vote for Mr. Macron."
Why?
Is Macron an open promoter of Islamism in France? It is more politically
correct to say that he is a "globalist" and an "open promoter of
multiculturalism". As such, he apparently does not consider Islamism a
national threat because, for him, the French nation, or, as he has said,
French culture, does not really exist. Macron has, in fact, denied that
France is a country with a specific culture, a specific history, and a
specific literature or art. On February 22, visiting the French expatriates
in London, Macron said: "French culture does not exist, there is a culture
in France and it is diverse". In other words, on French territory, French
culture and French traditions have no prominence or importance over imported
migrant cultures. The same day, in London, he repeated the offense: "French
art? I never met it!"
Conversely, in an interview with the anti-Islamist magazine, Causeur, he
said: "France never was and never will be a multiculturalist country".
Because he is a politician, Macron is not addressing the French people as a
whole. He is addressing different political customer bases. When visiting
Algeria, Macron said that colonization was a "crime against humanity". He
evidently hoped this remark would help him to collect the votes of French
citizens of Algerian origin.
During the presidential campaign, Macron was always saying to people what
they wanted to hear. French people may well be on their way to discovering
that for Macron, belonging to a homeland, thinking of borders and defining
oneself as belonging to a mother language or a specific literature or art,
is nothing more than junk.
Yves Mamou is a journalist and author based in France. He worked for two
decades for the daily, Le Monde, before his retirement.
Follow Yves Mamou on Facebook
by Yves Mamou
May 7, 2017 at 1:30 am
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10310/emmanuel-macron-islamism
Emmanuel Macron, a "Useful Infidel," is not a supporter of terrorism or
Islamism. It is worse: he does not even see the threat.
Louizi's article gave names and dates, explaining how Macron's political
movement has largely been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood militants.
Is Macron an open promoter of Islamism in France? It is more politically
correct to say that he is a "globalist" and an "open promoter of
multiculturalism". As such, he does not consider Islamism a national threat
because the French nation, or, as he has said, French culture, does not
really exist.
During the cold war with the Soviet Union, they were called "Useful Idiots".
These people were not members of the Communist Party, but they worked for,
spoke in favor of and supported the ideas of Lenin and Stalin. In the 21st
century, Communism is finally dead but Islamism has grown and is replacing
it as a global threat.
Like Communism, Islamism -- or Islamic totalitarianism -- has been
collecting its "Useful Infidels" the same way Communism collected its Useful
Idiots. There is, however, an important difference: under the Soviet Union,
Useful Idiots were intellectuals. Now, Useful Infidels are politicians, and
one of them may be elected president of France today.
Emmanuel Macron (Image source: European External Action Service)
Emmanuel Macron, Useful Infidel, is not a supporter of terrorism or
Islamism. It is worse: he does not even see the threat. In the wake of the
gruesome attacks of November 13, 2015 in Paris, Macron said that French
society must assume a "share of responsibility" in the "soil in which
jihadism thrives."
"Someone, on the pretext that he has a beard or a name we could believe is
Muslim, is four times less likely to have a job than another who is
non-Muslim," he added. Coming from the direction of Syria and armed with a
Kalashnikov and a belt of explosives would, according to him, be a gesture
of spite from the long-term unemployed?
Macron comes close to accusing the French of being racists and
"Islamophobes". "We have a share of responsibility," he warned, "because
this totalitarianism feeds on the mistrust that we have allowed to settle in
society.... and if tomorrow we do not take care, it will divide them even
more ".
Consequently, Macron said, French society "must change and be more open."
More open to what? To Islam, of course.
On April 20, 2017, after an Islamist terrorist killed one police officer and
wounded two others in Paris, Macron said: "I am not going to invent an
anti-terrorist program in one night". After two years of continuous
terrorist attacks on French territory, the presidential candidate said he
had not taken the country's security problems into account?
Moreover, on April 6, during the presidential campaign, professor Barbara
Lefebvre, who has authored books on Islamism, revealed to the audience of
the France2 television program L'Emission Politique, the presence on
Macron's campaign team of Mohamed Saou. It was Saou, apparently, a
departmental manager of Macron's political movement, "En Marche"
("Forward"), who promoted on Twitter the classic Islamist statement: "I am
not Charlie".
Sensing a potential scandal, Macron dismissed Saou, but on April 14, invited
onto Beur FM, a Muslim French radio station, Macron was caught saying on a
"hot mic" (believing himself off the air): "He [Saou] did a couple things a
little bit radical. But anyway, Mohamed is a good guy, a very good guy".
"Very good", presumably, because Mohamed Saou was working to rally Muslim
voters to Macron.
Is Saou an isolated case? Of course not. On April 28, Mohamed Louizi, author
of the book Why I Quit Muslim Brotherhood, released a detailed article on
Facebook that accused Macron of being a "hostage of the Islamist vote".
Republished by Dreuz, a Christian anti-Islamist website, Louizi's article
gave names and dates, explaining how Macron's political movement has largely
been infiltrated by Muslim Brotherhood militants. It will be interesting to
see how many of them will be candidates in Macron's movement in the next
parliamentary elections.
On April 24, the Union of Islamic Organisations of France (UOIF), generally
known as the French representative of Muslim Brotherhood, publicly called on
Muslims to "vote against the xenophobic, anti-Semitic and racist ideas of
the National Front and [we] call to massively vote for Mr. Macron."
Why?
Is Macron an open promoter of Islamism in France? It is more politically
correct to say that he is a "globalist" and an "open promoter of
multiculturalism". As such, he apparently does not consider Islamism a
national threat because, for him, the French nation, or, as he has said,
French culture, does not really exist. Macron has, in fact, denied that
France is a country with a specific culture, a specific history, and a
specific literature or art. On February 22, visiting the French expatriates
in London, Macron said: "French culture does not exist, there is a culture
in France and it is diverse". In other words, on French territory, French
culture and French traditions have no prominence or importance over imported
migrant cultures. The same day, in London, he repeated the offense: "French
art? I never met it!"
Conversely, in an interview with the anti-Islamist magazine, Causeur, he
said: "France never was and never will be a multiculturalist country".
Because he is a politician, Macron is not addressing the French people as a
whole. He is addressing different political customer bases. When visiting
Algeria, Macron said that colonization was a "crime against humanity". He
evidently hoped this remark would help him to collect the votes of French
citizens of Algerian origin.
During the presidential campaign, Macron was always saying to people what
they wanted to hear. French people may well be on their way to discovering
that for Macron, belonging to a homeland, thinking of borders and defining
oneself as belonging to a mother language or a specific literature or art,
is nothing more than junk.
Yves Mamou is a journalist and author based in France. He worked for two
decades for the daily, Le Monde, before his retirement.
Follow Yves Mamou on Facebook